Old pipes in Mississippi's capital city keep breaking, leading to potentially unsafe water

JACKSON, Miss. — Water outages are so common in Jackson, Mississippi, some residents hardly notice them. 

Betsy Cubit, 73, didn’t know her street had lost water for a few hours one day in September until a neighbor knocked on her door.

For four days after the water returned, Cubit and her Gardner Street neighbors were told to boil their water because it had been deemed potentially unsafe to drink.